Funnies

Some funnies from my crew!

I had just rolled over to sleep the other night when Lydia came in a tapped my on the shoulder. Immediately I could tell something was wrong. She asked if I had turned on the security alarm because she heard someone whistling in the house. I told her it was probably the wind and to go back to sleep. She continued explaining how it sounded, etc… so I decided to get up and find out what was making the noise. When I walked into her bedroom I heard it, it was Layton. Her nose was making a whistle sound as she was breathing. I told Lydia what it was, she didn’t agree saying she had never heard it before. I thought I would just lie down with her until she went to sleep. After a few minutes she rolled over and asked if I was sure that it was her sister!

Another night same situation as above, except she heard a mouse. I told her it was our new pets, hermit crabs, walking around in their rocks. She said ok and went to look at the crabs. They weren't moving so she came back into my room and exclaimed that it wasn't the crabs because they were asleep! I finally just told her to get in the bed with us!

Recently, we have started playing “slug-bug”! Lydia really gets into it and at random now Layton will come find me and say “slug-bug, I got you”! Lydia has gotten really good at it. The other day we were riding and she yelled out, “Look there is a slug-bug with its head cut off”. It was a convertible!

Layton has learned mine and Dave’s name. When she is real serious and wants to get his attention she calls him Dave! This past Saturday Dakota was at our house and of course she calls me “Miss Candi” so all day Layton called me “Miss Candi”!

A couple of weeks ago, we went to a friend’s birthday party. It was a costume party. The girls, especially Lydia, enjoyed dressing up. She went as a witch and Layton went as Minnie Mouse. Dave even dressed up as “Joe Dirt”. He looked kind of gross! At the party, they had different games and things. One game was apple-bobbing. Lydia has never seen anyone bob for apples. She eventually wanted to do it. Me, being my family’s apple-bobbing champion, told her a few tricks before she started! She beat her first competitor, then the second and so on and so on. She ended up beating everyone she raced against, that included young kids and older kids and BOYS. She never gets motivated about anything so I was so excited that she was excited about something! Of course after all the kids were done, Dave challenged me. I AM STILL THE CHAMPION! As we were walking in the house that night, Lydia said “that was pretty cool how I beat everyone at something”!

We have really been working with Lydia, learning how to read. She has really improved over the past 2 months. Layton will now pick up a piece of paper, book, anything with words on it and pretend to read it, just as Lydia reads to us, slow and loud!! She does the same thing while we practice Lydia's spelling words. As Lydia spells out loud, Layton repeats her.

Layton has picked up the phrase, “I sure will”, when you ask something of her. For example, when I ask her to bring me something or put something in its place, she responds by saying, “I sure will”. Even though it is funny to hear her say that, it is nice to hear such a sweet response.

The other night, Layton was talking to someone/something. Since there weren’t any babies or anything else around her, I asked who she was talking to, she said she was talking to the Devil! I told her not to talk to the devil, he was bad. Last week Dave took off work to spend time with the girls for Fall Break. He was home with them for 4 whole days!! One of the days, Layton told him she was talking to the “Debil”. I think it kind of freaked him out!

Recently I have started noticing when Layton gets in trouble, tired, whiny, etc… she immediately says she’s sleepy! For example, after telling her several times to pick up the other night, I spanked her. She started crying and said “I seepy”.

When Layton screams she has to scream real quiet then loud. It is hard to explain on paper but it is really funny!